Herman Cain's Berlin wall

Herman Cain told an audience in Tennessee on Saturday that he would build fence on the Mexican border. That fence is "going to be electrified. And there is going to be a sign on the other side that says, `It will kill you.'"

According to Wikipedia, The United States – Mexico border is the international border between the United States and Mexico. It runs from Imperial Beach, California, and Tijuana, Baja California in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east. It traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts.

The border runs From the Gulf of Mexico and  follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; westward. It crosses vast tracts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert, the Colorado River Delta, westward to San Diego and Tijuana before reaching the Pacific Ocean. The US-Mexican border is considered an Open Border.

The border's total length is 3,169 km (1,969 mi), according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission.

Fencing the border would be a major undertaking Rightrdia did some simple algebra baseds on the cost of a 14 mile triple fence built near San Diego. A complete Mexican fence project would cost more than $100 billion. 

Electrifying the fence would be even more costly. Electric power lines would have to be wired into the fence or generator stations installed along the border.

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